Employment Specialists

Are you passionate about making a difference and helping others? Would you like to work in an environment that puts the customer (our participants) at the heart of everything we do? 

As an Employment Specialist within the Employment Services department you will play a key role in delivering welfare-to-work programmes and the Individual Placement and Support approach, which aims to help people who have a health condition or disability, the long-term unemployed and other specified disadvantaged groups (Early Access Groups) find, enter and sustain paid employment.

You will be a self-motivated and target-driven individual who has a track record of delivering excellent customer service and wants to help people achieve their full potential.

• Manage a caseload of participants using the Individual Placement and Support approach.
• Provide person-centred advice and guidance to participants.
• Meet participants to understand their key skills, aspirations and goals as well as assessing support needs.
• Complete Vocational Profiles and produce Action Plans.
• Build positive relationships with local employers to enable participants to move into suitable employment including sourcing job opportunities and raising awareness of reasonable adjustments, return to work strategies and ongoing contact.
• Work collaboratively with Primary Care and NHS teams, job centres, VCS organisations and training partners to maintain positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment.
• Able and willing to travel across Nottinghamshire and occasionally the High Peak to meet participants and employers to ensure our services are accessible to all.

• A can-do, upbeat and energetic attitude.
• Be self-motivated and looking for a unique challenge.  
• Are confident delivering employability support both one-to-one and in group settings.  
• Have excellent local knowledge of support services and employment opportunities.  
• Able to show compassion and build rapport with participants.  
• Able to motivate participants and support them to achieve their goals.
• Has experience of working towards challenging targets.  
• Thrives on challenging targets.
• Passionate about helping people to achieve their potential.
• Be dependable, reliable, trustworthy and capable of exercising diplomacy.
• Experience of working within a welfare to work or IPS programme, or similar relevant role.

East Midlands Chamber is a well-respected and award winning organisation that aims to enhance businesses and communities in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. With more than 4,000 members, we have established a reputation as the voice of the region's economy.

All suitably qualified people are encouraged to apply for vacancies regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Applicants require current eligibility to live and work in the UK, they must also disclose any unspent convictions or cautions and company director disqualifications in their covering letter. Please inform recruitment@emc-dnl.co.uk of any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process. The business is dedicated to retaining talent and therefore it may decide to prioritise and support internal applicants.